student!Snape keeping Lupin's secret (was Re: Sirius as a dog)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 181158

> Alla:
> I do not know about "us" but I think that they certainly attacked 
> Snape individially and not individually, just as Snape attacked 
them 
> individually or not.

zgirnius:
Except there is all the canon Leah and I cited showing 'not 
individual' attacks by the Marauders, on Snape and on others. There 
is not so much as a whisper that Snape's Slytherin gang ever involved 
itself in the Snape/Marauders conflict. They existed, sure, and we 
now have confirmation some of them were likely even in Snape's year. 
They did evil things to Mary McDonald, possibly even using a spell 
Severus invented for them. (I think, to answer Montavilla's question, 
this would be a way for a 'little oddball' to buy some sort of 
acceptance by a gang). But no one ever said they together with Snape, 
ever did anything to one or several Marauders. This asymmetry in what 
we are told and shown, suggests to me  we are supposed to believe 
there was a corresponding asymmetry in these characters' behavior 
towards one another.

 > Alla:
> Um, that can be the reaction of people who are affraid that Snape 
> will get up and start hexing them with Sectusemptra left and right, 
> no?

zgirnius:
That's a mighty timid reaction to a guy who has already been 
disarmed. And as has been mentioned, it seems unlikely that, having 
formed such an expectation in the minds of his fellow students, 
Severus would still be around at school.